ER blumenthal

Today was a bit of a mad one. ER decided she simply did not want to do any work of any kind today.
We all have those days right? I didn't fancy a argument so I asked her if she wanted to watch some video's on YouTube. She enjoyed the ones yesterday. We watched some Horrible Histories clips of the Vile Victorians and suddenly she decided that she wanted to know what Mexico was like so we took to Google Maps and had a virtual trip across the world :)
Finally we did a bit of cooking and made a coconut loaf cake. I found a nice simple recipe online and let ER do the rest.
http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/22496/coconut-loaf-cake.aspx
She read the ingredients list and the method all by herself which actually suprised me!
Then she went onto weighing all the ingredients out and following the method, the only thing I did was put the oven on.
The cake was left in longer than needed because she wanted to stick to the 'rules' We ended up with a beautiful (if a bit burnt coconut cake :D )

Back to Home school :)

As you may have read in my first post I was Ill at the beginning of December. Well that horrid little virus wouldn't leave me alone, so I decided to put my feet up for December. Therefore Home school was put on hold until today.
I have made a schedule for week days right from getting up to going to bed, I put it on the wall for all to see so the children because ER likes to have structure. Otherwise she gets upset and all hell breaks loose.
As my neighbours have experienced for the past 4 weeks, and we've had the dreaded 'knock knock knock, can you keep the noise down please' so for their sanity and my tenancy I drew up a plan.
Things seem to be going well so far.
Anyway back to the home schooling.
I found a cheap planetarium craft set in 'the works'

so I decided we would learn about space for a full term and make a planet each week, ER really enjoyed it when we learned about Neptune.
We learned about the sun, I found some facts in a book and found a cute little video on youtube (that ER made me play twice because she liked the song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-kzdR93bqw
We did some maths from workbooks and we took out a subscription with conquer maths its £7.77 a month if you use the discount code HOMEED